When comparing Launchpad vs Gitea, the Slant community recommends Gitea for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to GitHub for Open Source projects?”Gitea is ranked 5th while Launchpad is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Gitea is:

Easy to install and setup. Can run on a VPS with 1 core CPU and 256MB RAM.

Pros

Pro

Support for web based translation

Launchpad makes it easy to translate free open source projects into virtually any language in the world. Users are allowed to start working on translating any project they want just by having a Launchpad account and a web browser. Most of the time they don't have to even join a team to start working and the editor is web based, so there is no need for any special software.

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Integrated build/deployment system

If you use launchpad, it gives you a build system (on their platform) as well as easier deployment - user merely adds your PPA to their sources.list file. Deployment (on Ubuntu, at least - other debians as well) doesn't get simpler than this.

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Great bug tracking features

Launchpad is built to be used for open source projects, as such it needs a powerful bug trackers to allow developers who want to contribute to jump right in. Launchpad displays bug statistics (total number of bugs, number of bugs fixed etc...) as well. Bugs can be searched and displayed from every project hosted on Launchpad or for single projects.

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Light-weight

Easy to install and setup. Can run on a VPS with 1 core CPU and 256MB RAM.

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Open source. Maintained by community

Unlike Gogs, which is maintained primarily by its creator.

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Like Gogs but with faster bug fixes

If you love Gogs but were frustrated with the long wait for bugs to be fixed, this is for you.

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Non-memory consuming

Just like Gogs, but with new features and fixed bugs. Unlike GitLab which is enormous.

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Github like

Gitea has a GitHub like interface.

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Wiki and Issues

Like GitHub, a wiki and issues (bugtracking) can be added to a repository.

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All platforms

Versions available for Linux, Mac and Windows. This is possible because Gitea is developed in the Go language which makes it compact and fast too. Only one executable is needed.

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Fast pace of development

New features, constantly updated.

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Easy install with MariaDB back-end.

No problems getting to work with MariaDB.

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Cons

Con

The web interface is complicated and hard to use

Other project hosts such as GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab have easy, simplistic UIs that help new and experienced developers alike to browse code right through the browser. LaunchPad on the other hand is very weak at this. Most of the projects have poor (if any) documentation and no way to determine a project's worth easily. The fastest way to do so with LaunchPad would be to download the project and look through the code manually, which is quite tiresome.

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